17/8/2019

Graft claims rock Seventh Day Adventist Church

A worshiper is pictured outside Nairobi Central SDA Church (Maxwell) after members were locked out of a service due to leadership wrangles, August 10, 2019. PHOTO | FRANCIS NDERITU | NATION MEDIA GROUP

By JOSIAH ODANGA

In Summary

A section of the church’s believers are now coming out to question the calibre of pastors who make it to their pulpits.

The advent church is also in a period where youth have been trooping to theology schools, more so to Bugema and Baraton universities, and other colleges such as Nyanchwa Adventist.

Concern is also being raised as to how SDA church title deeds have since left the villages and found their way to the headquarters where they are ‘kept’.

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Lately, the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church has been marred by controversy in what some commentators have attributed to tribalism and corruption.

But a section of the church’s believers are now coming out to question the calibre of pastors who make it to their pulpits.

“Did they join the ministry as a calling or because SDA is an equal opportunity employer?” posed one faithful.

“Today, performance of the pastor is not about the soul; it is about how much you surrender to the conference (church’s respective headquarters),” said Joshua Square, a member of Nyabimwa SDA church in Bonchari constituency — South Kenya Conference (SKC).

He adds that “the preaching itself is tilted with an emphasis on tithes and offerings”.